Greg Detre
@11 on Monday, 19 February, 2001
Dr Rosen, post-Kantian VI
you can defend Hegel as having no arguments against Kant, but having higher desiderata (something which is desired)
Kant assumes that the philosophical method stands outside the categories but there�s no such vantage point, except maybe to the physiologist � but this is not what Kant is concerned with
he�s worried about our knowledge of the world
what is form + what is content?
Kant � we can know the structure of our own mind, and how it conceptualises the world
but Hegel thinks this is implausible
surely, the spatio-temporal imposition itself happens as an act in time
what about a 4D spacetime continuum???
but this synthesis happens in the self according to Kant
moving to a world as constituted by Geist, not by individuals
can you rescue Kant? 2 ways:
1. separate transcendental part from imagination transcendental psychology (Strawson)
transcendental psychology vs transcendental philosophy
2. psychologist view � more like experimental psychologists
naturalise epistemology, utilise scientific knowledge
dualism between form + content
mind in 2 parts:
deals with stuff given to us � given manifold (intuitions)
works on it � rules for synthesis (concepts)
different from phenomena/nuomena
nuomena = source of phenomena
transcendental idealism is empirical realism
tables + chairs = appearances but also out there, but not wholly
ontologically independent (Ansich)
the tree exists in the quad without us, but it�s constructed in spacetime by our mind
so its existence is interpreted by us???
how do we get from bent stick in the water � straight stick
judgement, i.e. a sort of processing procedure to get from given to in-itself
so there is a content you are given upon which you impose form, but never see form without content
that form = concepts, including the categories (pure concepts of the understanding)
categories = present in ALL judgements
space + time = pure form of intuition
Kant gets rid of mind-body dualism
there is only thinking substance, extended and non-extended
no problem of interaction of substance
some things are space + time, some only time (e.g. hallucinations)
Hegel: now we have dualism of form + content within the perceptual process
experience = a world of which we are conscious
what means by dialectic
Antinomies � fundamental to Hegel
us(???): to a very great extent, but not exclusively
dualism in Fichte (Kantian) + Schelling (anti)
H�rlin � �Kant is our Moses�
Notion/Idea, concepts etc.
febrile time